By Fr. Jeffrey Kirby, The Catholic Thing - In life, we see two currents. The Lord Jesus described them as two paths: the wide way and the narrow way… Pope Saint John Paul II translated these notions into more contemporary language. In his monumental 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae… the beloved pontiff coined terms now common to a deep Catholic understanding of our times: the culture of life and the culture of death. In these expressions, the saint-pope was once again showing that there are two paths and two loves in life.